Was immediately terminated upon st. Coletta becoming aware of her alleged conduct for violation of the cell phone, social media and the confidentiality policy, which all prohibits the taking or the posting of the pictures or the information about substitutes. Coming up at 5 00, hear from the aide told police when she was confronted about the snapchat video. In the newsroom, annalysa gayle, abc7 news. Jonathan thanks. Also right now at4 00, hearing taking place after the charlottesville. The man who plowed in a car killing Heather Heyer. Alison you will remember the clashes turned deadly in august when the counterprotesters collided with the rally. Jonathan remember, even one man pulled a and gun started shooting. Here and there is a press area specially designated. Police outside the courthouse. All of this because of what happened last year. A lot of emotion here right now. Much of the focus today on 30yearold james fields of ohio. He faces a seconddegree murder charge accused of driving the car that plowed in a crowd of counterprotesters. 32yearold Heather Heyer was killed. Dozens were injured. His case is the fourth case heard by a judge. Moments ago we financed hearing from the witness testimony about 52yearold Richard Preston who is accused of firing a gun within 1,000 feet of a school. You may recall it was in your face, back and forth between the White Supremacists and the counterprotesters. Today we saw a video where a man makes a miniature flame thrower pointed to prestons direction. In turn, this is on the video. He pulls out a handgun and fires in that mans direction. There is one gunshot. These are all probable cause hearings. They have to decide if the cases move forwardment coming up at 5 00, you will hear the case about an assault case in a parking garage here. Its amazing because there is cell phone video of the events. That is all part of the testimony here. Reporting live from charlottesville, Richard Reeve, abc7 news. Alison thank you. Meanwhile developing today a therapist at a d. C. Massage envy pleaded guilty to sexually assaulting three female clients. Now the 24yearold faces up to five years in prison. But could be out sooner than that. We have an update on this story at 4 30 today. Well, six Inauguration Day riot suspects are now facing trial. Today the legal teams presented the closing argument. The monthlong trial starting to wrap up this evening and Stephen Tschida has an update now. Stephen tschida, at the last minute yesterday the most severe charges were dropped. Stephen that is ri the judge threw out the inciting a riot charge. That was the most serious felony here. Keep in mind, the six defendants face a slew of charges and potentially years in prison. The prosecution relied heavily on surveillance and the Police Body Cam video. Saying it clearly shows the defendants engaging in a riot. They stood by and supported those who aimed to deface and destroy property if they didnt indeed do it themselves. They have come back and basically said the First Amendment is tantamount to criminal activity. Stephen the defense says its a First Amendment right to associate who you choose and to protest. We heard the name donald trump frequently, and the defendant saying those charged with rioting simply exercising their right to express disapprove of Donald Trumps message of hate. Yeah. People are going to talk about trump. How people are out on the stre this is one trial but there are six defendants. Each defense attorney has a go at the closing arguments. There will be a rebuttal. So even if they wrap up today or tomorrow we most likely will not have a verdict in these cases. At the earliest until sometime next week. Reporting live, Stephen Tschida, abc7 news. Jonathan thank you. Vice president mike pence delaying the trip to the middle east including a critical trip to israel. He is staying in washington just in case the senate needs him to break a tie on the tax overhaul. Right now it does appear the vote is close. His tiebreaker vote may be needed. He had planned to leave for israel on saturday. Nancy we are learning today the United MedicalCenter Maternity Ward closed for good. It was first shut down in august and will stay that way over the health concerns. They serves ward seven and eight and its on the Prince Georges County border and the Hospital Board voted against seeking renewal of the license. Ahead for us at abc7 news at 5 00, the new options left for expecting mothers and families in d. C. Nancy arizona senator john mccain said to be increasingly frail as he undergoes treatment for brain cancer at walter reed. His office sid the 81yearold is treated for the normal side effects of cancer therapy. Just yesterday former Vice President joe biden comforted his longtime friends daughter on the view. One of the things that gave bo courage my word was john. Your dad, you may remember when you were a little kid. Your dad took care of my bo. Your dad when he was work wag with me became friends with bo. And beau talked about your dads courage. Not about illness but about his courage. Alison bidens son died in 2015, beau, who he is talking about there from the same type of brain cancer that mcc battling now. Nancy last night and in the morning, check this out. What you saw depends where you were. The squalls moved on fast. This afternoon, meantime, the sun peeking back out. It wasnt too bad a day for middecember. Stormwatch7s chief meteorologist bill kelly has a look at the forecast. It was nice out there. Bill not bad. Got in the 40s. Looking out the window and closer to the window. Cumulous clouds rolling through and that lindh kate a little change. We have change in the forecast. Not a major difference but what we are tracking tonight, you are fine. To the west there are areas of blue. A weak weather system to slide by and give us a chance for snow tomorrow. Afternoon in the early evening time frame. Again, i dont see this as a major problem but it is something to keep an eye on. Before tonight, you are good. Chilly evening, layer up and check out the holiday lights. 35, 33, 32. 7 00, 8 00, 9 00 we look at the weekend and the fist official day of winter. Jonathan thank you. Final salute to fire marshall killed on 270. Sander cohen long served as the fire marshall and today they had a funeral and the volunteer funeral came out and more. He died friday night. Kevin lewis showing us how the two were honored one more time. Gathered at the synagogue to remember sander cohen. His parents seated in the front row. There is nothing that i ever want more than to be spoken about the way all the family speak about him. He is a leader. Mayor, counman and larry hogan all in attendance today. A man who dedicated his life the Public Service and never hesitated to offer a helping hand right up until his last breath on this earth. That helping hand extended to the f. B. I. Agent carlos wolff who crashed along i270 friday night. Wolffs funeral also held this morning. But in a more private fashion. In gaithersburg. Procession of the Police Motorcycles and the fire trucks escorting the bodies of both men to the final resting place. Maryland state police have not yet said what caused the 28yearold driver to hit and but there is certainly an intense desire for answers. In rockville, im kevin lewis. Abc7 news. Covering metro now. Special hours for the Late Night Service on new years eve. Trains will be running later than normal. The service will run until 2 00 a. M. There will be no scheduled maintenance on the rails that night and on new years day. Good news for people celebrating out late. January 1, the rail system will only be open at 8 00 p. M. To 11 00 p. M. Parking will be free with the offpeak fares enforced. All right. Coming up for us, Net Neutrality rolled back. How the new rules will affect your Internet Access next. Jonathan i66 tolls hit a new high. If you thought 40 was nuts last week. Wait until you see what we saw this morning. A designer hard at work on a wedding dress. How did you know what i wanted . So the bride is happy but this story is all about the designer. What makes his work unlike any other. Nancy a farery tale ending fairy tale ending for disney and fox. The merger and what it means for the future of the en my day starts well before im even in the kitchen. I need my blood sugar to stay in control. So i asked about tresiba®. Tresiba® ready iba® is a oncedaily, longacting insulin that lasts even longer than 24 hours. I need to shave my a1c. Tresiba® ready tresiba® works like my bodys insulin. Releases slow and steady. Providing powerful a1c reduction. Im always on call. An insulin that fits my schedule is key. 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Get medical help right away if you have trouble breathing, fast heartbeat, extreme drowsiness, swelling of your face, tongue, or throat, dizziness or confusion. Ask your Health Care Provider if youre tresiba® ready. Covered by most insurance and medicare plans. Tresiba® ready alison now a 7 on your side alert. Controversial day at the f. C. C. Commissioners decided to scrap Net Neutrality but not before a threat forced evacuation of the hearing room. Nathan baca was there and has more. Quite a day. Nathan it was. Suspenseful day. They cleared the room and they had bombsniffing dog to look at the peoples belongings in the room. Nothing was found but would say nothing more about the anonymous threat. Its very cold morning. Dozens of plo testers gather protesters gathered outside the lifting of the Net Neutrality regulations. Protesters say Service Providers dont slow down websites of the competitors. The vote was interrupted after unanimous Security Threat but in the end it was 32 with the republican commissioner voting for what they called restoring Internet Freedom rule. What will this do for options . It will release a lot of the infrastructure. You came out of the meeting. What is your reaction . This is a crime against the public. The public has come out in the millions to say they want Net Neutrality. Nathan do not expect Internet Services to change immediately because we are talking about threatened lawsuits and congress may also get involved. Reporting live in southwest washington, nathan baca, abc7 news. Nancy thank you. If you are confused or want to know what Net Neutrality mean for users, providers or websites we have it co download the abc7 news app. All right there for more. Developing for us out of st. Louis now, two officers shot this morning responding to a barricade situation. The body armor likely saving the lives. Amanda henderson from the sister station wics is live with the latest there. Amanda . Amanda well, nancy, absolutely right. The situation started around 7 30 this morning when two officers were shot in the chest. You ski this is an active investigation going on. But the officers are crediting bulletproof vests for saving their lives. Tonight as they recover they are asking questions why they were shot in the first place. A shocking sight. Its chaotic. We hear two officers shot. Occurred near chambers and Bell Fountain road around 7 30 this morning. According to officials two Police Officers were shot at. Both had and are expected to survive. In this case, we were lucky. They were identified but at least county spokesperson as 44yearold man and 25yearold woman. The suspect then barricaded himself in a house where a stand off ensued. Hopefully he will come out and surrender. Those in the area are shocked at what is happening. Terrified. Literally terrified. I knew him. As far as we know the suspect was barricaded in a house down the street. We will continue to provide updates as they are available. What we believe are a new high. At one point, 44. I know, right . Transportation reporter sam sweeney has been tracking these every morning since the tolling began. Active last week. That is 44 over nine miles for solo drivers. Those of you what dont have an ez pass flex for the carpool. Get one fast. They wont know how many people paid that much. A lot of moment. You could walk. Alison my goodness. Most brides plan the wedding down to the very last detail. But a new york woman left something really big in the hands of her future husband. I promised my bride i would make her a dress but she is not going to see it until the day of the wedding. This is the making of the dress. Alison so he got to work 15 days before the wedding. He used a mannequin and he didnt know if he if he didnt know how to do something in particular he did what we would all do. Heg the bride saw her dress the day of the wedding. I was so overcome with emotion. I didnt know what to say. I just was speechless. I saw it and i was like how did you even know that this exactly what i wanted . Alison since she posted the video on facebook he has now gotten dozens of requests to make other wedding dresses. Nancy that is amazing. Jonathan first, he did in a workshop with tools but he had a sewing machine. If a guy can sew that well, that is keeper. Absolutely. Nancy another thing, it took 15 days. Hem started 15 days before the wedding on this. You didnt think you want to start a little bit earlier than two weeks out . Bill i cant even tell you if that long or short period of time. No clue. Alison short. Jonathan i cant get over that. Good for him. Nancy raising the bill a beautiful shot. Isnt this nice . This time of year you want to go out and experience the holiday. This is warmer than it has been. Look at that. 39 with the wind chill of 31 now. The northwest winds at 14 miles per hour. Its 21 in hagerstown. Its chilly out there. The air temperature itself is above freezing so that is important because the surface temperatures rose, roads and everything are up as well. This is a weak weather system going by tomorrow. We will get to the timing in a moment. Before tonight, clouds mixed in with the sunshine. Nice cool night until the morning. The cl colder in the morning than this morning. 30s in the morning. 12 00 noon. Now you start to see blue on the map showing up. This could bring us snowshowers. 2 00, east of the d. C. Metro. Generally speaking it should not be a big deal but i am watching it because you get a little bit of that and a little bit on the road. Those type of the weather systems we have to keep a close eye on. Usually the real big ones we know about well in advance. The little ones again we have to keep an eye on. Slight chance of the snow band. 48 and warming up on sunday with a few showers there. Then by next week we look ahead and beyond that. Mid50s as well. Looking good. Back to you. Jonathan all right. Thanks. Still ahead for us on abc7 i have to tell you that there are 100 false. Jonathan about the white house defor ature on g. M. A. And one of the anchors isnt sorry to see her go. The dismissal coming up. Let it go alison i have only heard that 4 million times in my home. Fox is letting go of the entertainment arm and disney is scooping it up. The astounding multibillion dollar deal and how it could reshape the entire industry coming up next. The freestanding, cordfree vacuum that can live anywhere because it has two rechargeable batteries. That means you can always be charging, even while youre cleaning. Welcome to hasslefree runtime with shark. Nancy the mouse rolls on. Busy buying 21st century fox. The entertainment arm of the empire. We go behind the deal that will change the landscape of the history. The blockbuster deal creating an entertainment power house. The Walt Disney Company that owns abc news announced it is acquiring most of 21st century fox for 54 billion in stock. The voice behind frozen. Let it go the pirates of the caribbean. And star wars. Now bringing in part of foxs edgier tv empire including f f x, nat geo. They are now under one umbrella so the customer has more access to the premium content. The disney chairman promising great content for the consumer. They will get high quality content. Disney will have a major stake in hulu adding shows like the simpsons and the classic films like sound of music. The mastermind saying its a move to compete with netflix. It beefs up what disney can offer as a streaming service. Since iger took the help in 2005, they have creators like pixar, lucas films and marvel, ushering in the new era for the industry. Disney is expected to pull the content from netflix by 2019 like all will be suspect to regulatory approval. Jonathan dozens of people without a place to stay in the holidays. A fire through the apartment complex. The complications firefighters faced coming up next. Nancy massage therapist admits he assaulted his line but you wont believe how soon he could get out of prison. The sentence ahead. Alison ahead at 5 00, a big gift for a little boy and his priceless reaction when students make him a new arm. Well see you at 5 00. What does it feel like . Like . Does fearless age . Or does it simply grow. Stronger . Fearless looks a little different to us all. But with a new carefirst medplus medigap plan, you can find yours. Call now to speak